Mound Quotes
57 quotes by 50 authors
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Heap not on this mound roses that she loved so well; why bewilder her with roses that she cannot see or smell.
— Edna St. Vincent Millay
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Shaped a little like a loaf of French country bread, our brain is a crowded chemistry lab, bustling with nonstop neural conversations.Imagine the brain, that…
— Diane Ackerman
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As in the case of making a mound, if, before the very last basketful, I stop, then I shall have stopped. As in the case…
— Confucius
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The tree which needs two arms to span its girth sprang from the tiniest shoot. Yon tower, nine stories high, rose from a little mound…
— Laozi
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No compact among men . . . can be pronounced everlasting and inviolable, and if I may so express myself, that no Wall of words,…
— George Washington
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Initially, it (winning the 1967 American League Pennant) was what you would dream about in Little League. The winning pitcher, being on the mound to…
— Jim Lonborg
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To get the feel of how the slider should roll off of your index finger, use this grip and practice at half speed and roughly…
— Steve Carlton
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He who thinks he is raising a mound may only in Reality be digging a pit.
— Ernest Bramah
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It's not fear of striking out that makes me reluctant to step up to the plate. It's the fear of getting hit in the head…
— Jim Copeland
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Consistency is something you can always improve on. You can be more consistent with your mental approach, the things you do physically on the mound.…
— Greg Maddux
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If we lose today, it will be over my dead body. They'll have to leave me face down on the mound.
— Luis Tiant
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You can't go out to the mound, hobbling and take a pitcher out with a cane.
— Casey Stengel
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Johnny Sain don't say much, but that don't matter much, because when you're out there on the mound, you got nobody to talk to.
— Casey Stengel
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I don't believe for one second that the eye surgery has helped me on the mound
— Greg Maddux
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Primarily, every rule change over the past ten years has been against the pitchers - lowering the mound and the designated hitter.
— Gaylord Perry
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I think I rushed and I needed more time with my comeback. I needed more time to get my legs stronger to be able to…
— David Cone
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I love being out there on the mound with the ball in my hand. I can control the game. I'm out there. No clock -…
— David Cone
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The doctor said I should do a lot of walking, so I walk to the mound nine or ten times a game.
— Cal Ripken, Sr.
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The pleasure of sport was so often the chance to indulge the cessation of time itself--the pitcher dawdling on the mound, the skier poised at…
— George Plimpton
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If we cannot serve a person who we can see, how can we serve a God whom we cannot see? Some just have to have…
— Phil Pringle
Who Wrote These Mound Quotes
50 authors contributed a total of 57 Mound Quotes, led by these top contributors: